Rinus Michels was born in Amsterdam and grew up at the Olympiaweg, a street near the Olympic Stadium. On 9 June 1946, In his debut, Ajax beat ADO 8–3 and Michels scored five times. That season Ajax won their fourteenth division championship and a year later they won the Dutch national championship.he appeared in 264 league matches for Ajax, in which he scored 122 goals.

Petrus ("Piet") Johannes Keizer (born 14 June 1943 in Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch professional football player. Keizer was a part of the Total Football Ajax Amsterdam team of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly notable during the managerial tenures of Rinus Michels and Stefan Kovacs (1965-1973). he is widely considered as one of the greatest players in the history of the Netherlands. Dutch writer Nico Scheepmaker said Keizer was "Cruyff is the best, but Keizer is the better one".